Special Counsel David Weiss’ office, in a Wednesday filing, referred to evidence it plans to present at the trial allegedly showing that Hunter Biden was compensated by a Romanian businessman who was trying to influence U.S. policy and shut down an investigation. site about it in Romania.
The prosecution will present evidence at trial that the president’s son “received compensation from a foreign principal who was trying to influence U.S. politics and public opinion and have the United States investigate the Romanian investigation” of the businessman, the counsel wrote senior special assistant Derek Hines. in Wednesday filing.
The additional details about Biden’s involvement with the Romanian businessman came from a prosecutor’s document urging the court to deny Biden’s request to withhold certain evidence that his lawyers consider unfairly prejudicial in his federal tax case, which includes allegations that he did not paid taxes. he failed to file, avoided an assessment, and filled out a fraudulent form.
A lawyer for Biden did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday night.
Prosecutors previously alleged in their indictment that between November 2015 and May 2017, Biden received one-third of approximately $3.1 million in compensation related to a verbal agreement to help the businessman, who is referred to as “GP” in court filings, contest bribery charges faced in Romania.
Prosecutors said a business associate, who is not named in the lawsuit, would testify at trial about the Romanian businessman’s alleged efforts to retain them and another associate to try to pressure federal agencies into opening an investigation, in an effort to shut down the probe. crime in Romania. from him.
Prosecutors do not intend to present evidence in the case of “direct compensation from a foreign state or evidence that the defendant received compensation for actions taken by his father that impacted national or international policy,” Hines wrote.
He argued, however, that Biden’s salary structure and details about his job were relevant to their case.
“Further, the evidence of what defendant agreed to do and did for GP demonstrates defendant’s state of mind and intent during the relevant tax years charged in the indictment,” Hines wrote.
“It is also evidence that the defendant’s actions do not reflect someone with diminished capacity, given that he agreed to attempt to influence U.S. public policy and receive millions of dollars under the terms of an oral agreement” with his associate as part of a plan “that hid the true nature of the work”, he added.
Biden’s trial is scheduled to begin next month.
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